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Summary: Corso's book a dry read with little believeability.
Review: Phillip Corso's "The Day After Roswell" is, at first blush an exciting look into the world of black ops and reverse engineering. However, once you begin to read Mr. Corso's tale of his management of the Pentagon's reverse engineering of "alien technology," you discover a startlingly dull and boring account from a dull man who spends much of his book worshipping his former superior officer. This book is incoherent at its best, and at its worst it is a terrible bait-and-switch pulled on the Roswell Phenomenon enthusiast. This book claims to blow the lid off Roswell. Instead, it puts you to sleep with the sketchy rememberances of a career military man apparently out to make a buck. Save your money.
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Summary: Not worth one star. It is trash, save your money!
Review: Yes, I'd like to believe, and I was fooled into expecting some sort of evidence from this piece of trash. I doubt Corso wrote the book. It is vague, and I believe fraudulent. For someone (Corso) who was supposedly involved in exploiting UFO technology, his involvement amounted to staring at a file cabinet, throwing together some stupid essay of his speculations for his "boss," and then turning over artifacts to others and saying: here, do something with it, get it into products of everyday use. Yeah, sure. I started skimming after a couple of chapters, spot checked other chapters, and tossed it into the trash.
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Summary: Is wanting to believe strong enough?
Review: If indeed Col.Corso is being sincere,then God help us. However,should this be the fabrication of someones "overactive" imagination,then it is a relief. This is an excellent story,and one must question if that is ALL it is. Col. Corso is not a particularly "dramatic" writer,however,his attention to detail is worthy of praise. Aside from Whitley Strieber's novels,I suggest this one above ALL OTHER U.F.O. related books.
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Summary: Not fact - just a good story
Review: I was looking for some hardened facts, but once again was dissapointed by reading a piece of fiction. Yes, Roswell may be true, and yes reverse enginerring 'might' of occurred, but a lot of what is claimed just does not ring true. Still, it was quite thought provoking. I still remain a 'believer' am not at all religious, in fact believing more in ET's than in God. JUST GIVE ME SOME FACTS PLEASE. STOP THE STORIES.
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Summary: Fascinating report of government cover-up
Review: I believe in the truthfullness of the author, and believe that our government must tell us of their knowledge of extraterrestrial life in the universe. If you would like to know the real truth about our begininnings then you need look no further. I will tell you our true heritage. Look for my book soon to be published entitled "The Universe and Beyond". Carol Granato
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Summary: Exellent! Brilliant! And very Detailed!
Review: The book offers many perspectives of how and why the Roswell incident lead to other very important issues! Jeremy C.
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Summary: Chilling, if true!
Review: Corso not only tells the facts of what happened in Roswell in 1947, but relates his feelings as he contributes to the government's cover-up of the incident. As an "insider" he had access to the actual crash site debris and the reports generated by the various military, medical and industrial researchers assigned to analyze the spacecraft, aliens and technology found at the site. Corso openly tells the story through his own personal experience with the incident. He gradually progresses from the date of the crash until his last days in the military. He reveals his own thoughts and explains how the government hushed the discovery while disseminating the "foreign technology" to those most qualified to do something with it. On the whole, this book provides some valuable insight into the government's propaganda machinations and yet is an easy and entertaining read. After reading this book, one is free to decide for themselves if an alien craft did crash in the Roswell desert. However, this book leaves you feeling that something happened there based upon the level of government involvement. If the facts as told by Corso are true, then we can truly say we are not alone in the universe!
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Summary: Pedestrian military career glorified with fantastic claims..
Review: If his information came from true personal experience, I would expect to find in it greater detail and the sort of inconsistency that reality provides in abundance. Instead I find innumerable signs of fabrication. Corso found a way to weave his military career into the strands of the widely circulating Roswell stories. Corso turns his pedestrian literary style to an advantage, because the lack of flash and brilliance in the style makes the reader more likely to accept it all as true. (For similar reasons, Jonathan Swift used no metaphors or similes in his Gulliver's Travels. Much of the peculiar fascination of that book is due to the dull character of Gulliver and the plodding style of "his" writing coupled with the fantastic assertions of his travels.)Here are a few specifics from the many I found: pg. 18 "Well, you get your civilian ass back on that truck and get it the hell out of here." This sort of profanity from a sergeant to a fireman just doesn't ring true. It sounds the way military people are made to talk in adventure books, but not as they really do talk in real life. Conversations tend to be much more mundane and less fraught with high emotion. ("Hey sarge, would you mind backin' off there a bit. Yeah, this area's off limits and you'll have to leave.") pg. 21 "...Army Intelligence and CIC personnel fanned out through Roswell and neighboring communities to suppress whatever information they could. With ill-advised threats of violence, actual physical intimidation..." This entire description which runs on for two pages smacks of over dramatization. How would the military people know who to "fan out" to much less who to intimidate? It implies a degree of omniscience that goes beyond what one can reasonably expect from a military organization. Besides, all this threatening would cause more interest in what was being covered up than simply ignoring the incident entirely. It's one of these assertions that may sound plausible to people who have little knowledge of the military but which are preposterous to people who have been in the military. pg. 52 Re: flying wing bombers Isn't it a bit suspicious that most of the technology which Corso claims to have recovered from Roswell is a mere 20 to 50 years ahead of our own? In other words, the spread between human technology and alien technology is (with the exception of the propulsion system) darned close to ours. Wouldn't it be more likely that alien technology, would be thousands, even millions, of years ahead of our own, and therefore so advanced as to be utterly incomprehensible? Imagine a jet aircraft landing in the Egypt of the Pharaohs. No amount of back engineering would have helped them to advance their civilization or technology even one step because all the technologies and materials would have been utterly beyond their comprehension. pg. 96 "...a thin layer of fatty tissue unlike any they'd ever seen before. And it was completely permeable, as if it were constantly exchanging chemicals back and forth with the combination blood/lymphatic system." What he has just said above would be true of human skin or the skin of any animal at all. Where are the details to give us insight into what would be unusual about the alien? And where are the anatomists who performed these autopsies? If any such came forward with genuine proof, they would hold the same position in science as Galileo and Newton-a mighty powerful inducement for some previously anonymous doctor to step forward. pg. 96 "The lengthwise alignment of the fibers in the suit also prompted the medical analysts to suggest that the suit might have been capable of protecting the wearer against the low-energy cosmic rays that would routinely bombard any craft during a space journey." Cosmic rays are the nuclei of various atoms which have been accelerated close to the speed of light. Therefore, such nuclei are energetic enough to penetrate the electron cloud of any sort of molecular structure. They are stopped only by the nuclei of other atoms. How the atoms might be arranged into molecules and whether these molecules are oriented "lengthwise" (or crosswise whatever that might mean to a subatomic particle) is of no consequence. The arrangement of atoms is beside the point. Regardless of how unusually configured a fiber might be on the molecular level, it is the nuclei of it's atoms that would do the work of protecting an entity. This is another example of Corso's dim understanding of simple science and surprising in a man who claims to have been so intimately involved in disseminating knowledge to great scientists. pg. 127 "our persistent tracking radars at Alamogordo...helped bring down the alien vehicle..." Whoa! These guys can screw around with our satellites at will, drive spacecraft that are electrical circuits, and transform electromagnetic fields into antigravity fields but one of our primitive little radars (which is not even intended to be a weapon) brings them down? Does this make any sense? pg. 225 [an anonymous officer says] "Look at this pork...It's been stored here unrefrigerated for months and its's completely free of trichina worm." The implication is that somehow keeping pork free of trichina worm is a remarkable achievement of food irradiation. Actually trichina is a parasite which enters the pig while it is alive in the pig's food and lodges in its muscle tissue as a microscopic larva. It then encysts in the muscle tissue while it waits for the pig to be eaten by the trichina worm's next host. Irradiation would kill the encysted trichina but it would never make it "free" of trichina. Nor of course would the fact of months of unrefrigerated storage have anything to do with trichina presence. Again, Corso has a hard time with science facts.
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Summary: Talking a lot and saying little
Review: If you believe in Government cover-ups of just about anything, then you'll believe in the veracity of the situations the author writes about. Aside of several glaring, though minor, technical errors, the writing is dull and overdetailed in some chapters and, occasionally, interesting in others. I did not believe in aliens being recovered at the Roswell crash in 1947, and the author has failed to convince me. Having knowledge of the development of Kevlar (TM), I simply cannot agree that Col (or is it Lt Col, the book jumps back and forth), recovered prototypical specimens from his "nut file". I could have spent my money in a better fashion.
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Summary: Is he for real?
Review: The first thing that strikes you about Corso is that he doesn't claim to know the "truth" about what happened on July 2 (3rd, or 4th), 1947. He merely pieces it together from the accounts of others. He claims to have seen the bodies! The fact that this guy used to be an NSC staff member means he is telling the truth or he is crazy. If he's crazy then we are all @#$%ed because you don't get much higher than that in our gov't. Highlights include keeping the whole thing from the CIA, JE Hoover as hero, SDI as anti saucer network, and technology breakthroughs from the crash. Unlike other schmucks, Corso claims the US knows nothing about the motives of these crafts (so much for that base in New Mexico). This is the best book available on UFOs. And Corso's credentials lend credence to Jacques Vallee's proposition that our government is involved in this on some level. Even if you hate this guy, you will finish the book.
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